Bot activism: AI powered "Grassroots campaigns" for digital astroturfing. Non- paywalled article here: archive.is/ZYbjG
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@caadcoalition.bsky.social🗑️ 20,0000 AI-generated “grassroots” emails just helped kill a key clean air vote in Southern California, blocking rules that would have cut pollution from gas appliances.
“What we’re seeing with AI is absolutely the next step in digital astroturfing"
via @latimes.com
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Southern California air board rejected pollution rules after AI-generated flood of comments
SoCal’s pollution authority scrapped a plan to phase out gas-powered appliances after receiving more than 20,000 emails sent by an AI-powered platform called CiviClick.